Famitsu Sales: 12/29 - 01/04

[outlawauron]

Hyruken said:

CGI-Quality said:
@ Hryuken

Ok, so NOW you say just GT5 won't release this year when before you said BOTH FFXIII and GT5 won't release this, ok changed your story. Second, show me where I mentioned the DS in my argument, I never brought up the DS. And what makes you so RIGHT that hardware will continue to FAIL when some of the biggest releases in Japan: DQ 10, FFXIII are releasing this year? Sure, what you speak of from 2007-2008 may have some truth to it but it does NOT determine the future as Montana has already pointed out. You're now just pulling at straws bro. And I told you, if 2009 goes your way, I will glady take a call out from you come Jan 1, 2010. Other than that, get off it man. Obviously I can't change your mind as you can't change mine so leave it that. Let the year take shape, neither one of us knows for sure how ALL of 2009 will turn out while we're only on the 9th day of the year.

 

I have not changed my story at all, it is the same as before, go read it. I said games "LIKE GT5 and FFXIII", meaning your whole point of view surrounds games coming out for the consoles/handhelds that are of that high level. If they suffer a delay or simply don't come due to actually having no set release date will mean sales would expect to be lower right? If sales in 2008 were DOWN and they had games like MGS4,SSMB,Mario Kart,Dragon Quest,Tales of Symphonia,Winning Eleven 09,GTA4,Valkerie Chronicles, Way of the samurai 3,Soul Caliber 4,Bladestorm,LBP,Tales of Versperia,TLR,Infinate Undiscovery,Devil May Cry 4,Ninja Gaiden 2,Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2,Naruto,Dragonball Z Burst Limit,Animal Crossings,Pocket Monsters,Dragon Quest 5, Dissidia Final Fantasy,Monster Hunter Freedom 2nd,Phantasy Star P,Gundam vs Gundam etc.. etc.. then what will sales be like without them? If you think that GT5 and FFXIII are the two games that will drive sales across the board then you have to be either pretty dumb or have no clue to how Japanese people currently view the gaming market. The PS3 has become cheaper and had more higher profile games for it in the past 12 months then the previous 12 months before that but yet sales were down. Does that not tell you something about that console in Japan OVERALL?

This part isn't true. The PS3 had a price drop in November of 2007. And other than MGS 4, things have been pretty equal.